The Amityville Village Board approved a $5,000 allocation for hiring an appraiser to determine the value of property at 90 Merrick Road—the site the Village Board is considering acquiring to construct a municipal parking lot.

A group of approximately 100 Amityville residents and business owners attended an information and fact-gathering hearing on Mon., June 13 on a plan for additional parking on Merrick Road between Broadway and South Ketcham Avenue.

At a dinner and ceremony attended by more than 180 people, lifelong Amityville resident and community leader Ellen Ricciuti was named this year’s De Witt Clinton Masonic Award winner for community service. She was honored at the Masonic Lodge on May 14.

Muncie Road in West Babylon is a busy street that is rich in history. Many of the homes built there were the first in West Babylon on land purchased from the Indians.
Now, however, many of them are gone, and a proposal by a local developer to construct another multi-family complex on Muncie Road will level another one.

On June 22, 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, commonly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights. By the time the benefits of the bill expired in July 1956, 2.4 million veterans had home loans backed by the Veterans' Administration. That program led to the development of suburban communities across the country, including many on Long Island.